The University in Ruins [Audiobook] download free by Bill Readings
- Listen audiobook: The University in Ruins
- Author: Bill Readings
- Release date: 1997/4/27
- Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Teaching Resources and Education
- ISBN: 9780674929531
- Rating: 8.56 of 10
- Votes: 539
- Review by: Camron Meredith
- Review rating: 8.24 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/14
- Duration: 3H7M23S in 256 kbps (51.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-19
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, OPUS, MPEG4, FLAC, WAV, WMA, MPEG-4 SLS (compression TAR, ACE, RAR, TAR.BZ2, LZ, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 256
- Includes a PDF summary of 28 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 20M6S (5.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: It is no longer clear what role the University plays in society. The structure of the contemporary University is changing rapidly, and we have yet to understand what precisely these changes will mean. Is a new age dawning for the University, the renaissance of higher education under way? Or is the University in the twilight of its social function, the demise of higher education fast approaching?We can answer such questions only if we look carefully at the different roles the University has played historically and then imagine how it might be possible to live, and to think, amid the ruins of the University. Tracing the roots of the modern American University in German philosophy and in the work of British thinkers such as Newman and Arnold, Bill Readings argues that historically the integrity of the modern University has been linked to the nation-state, which it has served by promoting and protecting the idea of a national culture. But now the nation-state is in decline, and national culture no longer needs to be either promoted or protected. Increasingly, universities are turning into transnational corporations, and the idea of culture is being replaced by the discourse of 'excellence.' On the surface, this does not seem particularly pernicious.The author cautions, however, that we should not embrace this techno-bureaucratic appeal too quickly. The new University of Excellence is a corporation driven by market forces, and, as such, is more interested in profit margins than in thought. Readings urges us to imagine how to think, without concession to corporate excellence or recourse to romantic nostalgia within an institution in ruins. The result is a passionate appeal for a new community of thinkers.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Teaching Resources & Education, Higher & Further Education, Tertiary Education, Social & Cultural History, History Of Ideas, Organization & Management Of Education, Philosophy & Theory Of Education
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 27.41 USD
- Dimensions: 156x235x16.76mm
- Weight: 408g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Cambridge, Mass, United States
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